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LAWS 



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UNIVERSITY OF I^ASHVILLE, 



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LAWS 



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UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE. 



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NEW EDITION. 




NASHVILLE. 
PEI?fTED BY B. R. M'KENNIE, WHIG AND STEAM PKBSS. 

1840, 



LAWS 



OF THE 



UNIVERSITY ^'OF NASHVILLE, 



CHAPTER I. 

Of the Faculty of the University, 

1. The Faculty of the University shall be composed of the 
President, Professors, Tutors and all other persons concerned 
in its immediate government and instruction, except those who 
may be specially excluded by the Board of Trustees. 

2. A majority of the members of the Faculty shall, when 
duly convened, constitute a quorum. 

3. Every matter brought before the Faculty, shall be decided 
by votes; and it shall be the privilege of the President, when 
present, to vote in all cases, and also to give a casting vote 
when otherwise there would be a tie. 

4. The Faculty may, if they see fit, keep a book of records 
or minutes, and appoint a clerk, who shall enter therein a fair 
statement of their transactions and resolutions; which book the 
clerk shall lay before the Trustees whenever required. 

6. The President may convene the Faculty at his discretion, 
and appoint the time and place of meeting. 

6. It is the duty of every officer individually, to use his ut- 
most vigilance and exertions to carry into complete effect, 
every law of the University without exception. As he is 
clothed with sufficient authority to make himself and the laws 
respected, he is never to suffer any violation of a statute known 
to him, to pass without its due reprehension or punishment. 

7. An exemplary regard to moral and religious duties, is in- 
dispensable in every officer of the University. 



8. All the officers of the University have the right to enter 
the rooms of the students at their pleasure, and it is their duty 
frequently to visit them. 

9. No member of the Faculty shall engage in any business 
or occupation which will interfere with a stated and punctual 
discharge of his official duties, without the consent of the 
Board of Trustees* 



CHAPTER 11. 

Of the President. 
L To the President is committed the general superinten- 
dence of the interests and reputation of the University, which 
he is bound to promote and maintain by every exertion in his 
power. 

2. He is, ex officio, President of the Board of Trustees, and 
of the Faculty, when present with them, and also the adminis- 
trator of their decisions in cases of discipline. 

3. He has a right to be present at the recitation of any 
class in the institution, as often as he may see proper, and to 
conduct or hear the recitation if he choose, 

4. He will take such branches of instruction into his own 
hands as he may judge that the number of other teachers and 
the exigencies of the institution shall render necessary and ex- 
pedient. 

5. x\ll the religious exercises and studies of the University 
are committed to his direction: and the other members of the 
Faculty are required to render him such assistance as may be 
deemed necessary to the punctual and faithful discharge of 
these duties. 

6. He is to preside at examinations and commencements, 
and to confer all degrees. 



CHAPTER III. 
Of the Professors. 
L The Professors shall be responsible for the faithful in- 
struction of the students in those departments of science and 
literature, which they severally profess. And they will be 
expected to render such additional aid in the general instrue- 



tion of the University, as the Faculty, from time to time, may 
judge expedient. 

2. They shall take rank according to the dates of their re- 
spective appointments; unless, on account of the superior age 
and distinguished reputation of a newly elected Professor, the 
Trustees shall otherwise direct. 

3. In the absence or sickness of the President, the Senior 
Professor present, shall convene and preside in the Faculty. 

4. Those Professors whose circumstances will permit, may 
reside in the College edifice, and diet with the students in the 
College refectory. This may be required of them by the 
Trustees, whenever the welfare of the institution shall de- 
mand it. 

5. They shall, as far as practicable, aid the Tutors in the pre- 
servation of order in the College, and dihgently co-operate 
with the Faculty in every measure calculated to promote the 
prosperity and reputation of the institution. 

6. It is expected that the students shall have ready access to 
them, for the purpose of obtaining such assistance as tliey may 
need in the daily prosecution of their studies. 

7. It shall be their duty to attend morning and evening 
prayers in the University Chapel, except when necessarily pre- 
vented. 



CHAPTER IV. 

Of the Tutors. 

1. The Tutors shall take such part in the instruction of the 
students, as may be assigned to them respectively by the Presi- 
dent. 

2. They shall live in the College edifice, unless prevented by 
sickness: and to them, with the Professors, is specially commit- 
ted the preservation of order and decorum in the institution. 

3. To encourage and assist the students, and to prompt them 
to diligence in their studies, they and the Professors who reside 
in the College, shall visit their rooms whenever they deem it 
proper, or as often as the Faculty may direct. And to those 
students who shall be ascertained to be unlawfully absent from 
their rooms, or idle, or improperly emploved, they shall ad- 

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minister suitable reproof, or Report them to the Faculty, to be 
dealt with according to the nature of their offence. 

4. They shall attend the meals of the students, and see that 
they conduct themselves witli propriety while they are in the 
Dining Hall. 

5. They are to be present with the students at morning and 
evening prayers; and to preside in the absence of the superior 
officers. 



CHAPTER V. 

Of admission into the University. 

1. The undergraduates shall be divided into four classes: 
namely. Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior classes. 

2. Candidates for admission into the Freshman class, are ex- 
pected to be accurately acquainted with the Grammar, including 
prosody, of the Greek and Latin tongues, with Mair^s introduc- 
tion, and such other elementary books as are usually taught in 
respectable Grammar Schools; Csesar's Commentaries, Virgil, 
Cicero's Orations, Greek Testament and Dalzel's Collectanea 
Graeca Minora, or with other Greek and Latin authors, equiva- 
lent to these; and also with English Grammar, Arithmetic, and 
Geography. 

3. No person shall be admitted to an advanced standing, 
unless he be equal to the class for which he shall be a candidate. 

4. No person shall be admitted into this University, who . 
may have studied at any other College or University, without 
producing a certificate from the President or Faculty of such 
College or University, that he has left it without censure. 

5. No person shall be admitted into this University, who is 
known ever to have been concerned, either as principal or 
second, in a duel. Nor shall any person be thus received, who 
is unable to furnish satisfactory testimonials of his good moral 
character. 

6. Every person, before he is admitted to an actual standing 
in any class, shall produce to the Faculty a receipt or certificate 
from the Treasurer of the University, by which it shall appear 
that he has complied with the existing orders of the Trustees 
relative to the payment of his College dues. And this rule shall 



also be observed in regard to all the students at the commence- 
ment of every new session of the College, or whenever they 
shall, after a vacation or any absence, return to the College. — 
So that, in no case whatever, shall a student be in arrears to the 
College, except upon the responsibility of the Treasurer, or of 
such officer as shall admit him to recitation notwithstanding 
the provisions of this statute. And if the Treasurer shall give 
to a student a receipt or certificate for any sum less than the 
amount due to the College from such student, he shall be re- 
sponsible for the remainder of said student's dues; and the 
Faculty may permit him to attend all the exercises of the Uni- 
versity. 

7. To prevent all excuses arising from an ignorance of the 
laws of this institution, every student, upon his admission, shall 
receive a copy of them, for which he shall pay to the Treasurer 
twenty-five cents, to defray the expenses of printing. 

8. Every student, thus admitted, shall be held bound by his 
truth and honor strictly to obey the laws, so long as he con- 
tinues a mem.ber of the institution. 

9. When the Faculty deem it expedient, they may receive 
students for a limited time upon probation; with a view either 
to ascertain their qualifications for any particular class, or to 
learn more fully their moral character and disposition. 



CHAPTER VI. 
Of Punishments. 

1. The administration of the government of this University 
will ever be mild and equitable, and as nearly parental as the 
nature of the establishment will permit. The reformation of 
the offender will be steadily and judiciously aimed at as far as 
practicable: and no severe or disgraceful penalty will be award- 
ed, except when the paramount interests of the institution shall 
demand it, or when the flagitious character of the offence shall 
render it indispensable. 

2. The punishments of the institution, being wholly of the 
moral kind, and addressed to the sense of duty and the principles 
of honor and shame, are the following, namely: Private admo- 
nition of a student by any officer of the University; admonition 



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before the Faculty; formal admonition before the class of the 
offender; public admonition and reprehension in the presence of 
all the students; suspension from the privileges of the Universi- 
ty for a limited time; suspension for an indefinite period; public 
and formal expulsion. 

In all cases of admonition, or of restoration after suspension, 
the party or parties censured may be required to make suitable 
acknowledgments, concessions, professions of penitence, and 
promises of amendment and of future good behavior. Or they 
may be put on a state of probation, with an intimation, that, 
for the next offence, the penalty will be more severe, or the 
most severe that can be inflicted. 

3. In all laws where the penalty is not specified, the selection 
and application of any of these punishments shall be discretion- 
ary with the Faculty. The Faculty, moreover, are to judge of 
the circumstances of the offence, and to consider whether they 
extenuate or aggravate its nature, and to proportion the penalty 
accordingly. The repetition of offences shall always be con- 
sidered as an aggravating circumstance. 

4. If any student shall refuse to remove out of the College 
on being suspended, the Faculty are authorized to cause him to 
be immediately removed, and, if necessary, to call in aid the 
Trustees or civil authorities; and they may also cause an extract 
of their minutes respecting him to be published in the newspa- 
pers; and such student shall be expelled; and never afterwards 
be re-admitted. 

5. No student shall be expelled from the University except 
by the Board of Trustees. Nor shall a suspended student be 
restored without the consent of the Faculty. 



CHAPTER VII. 

Of Study. 

1. The regular College course of study may be completed in 
four years. 

2. Every student shall diligently apply himself to such 
studies as shall be prescribed to him by his teachers, and shall 
be careful not to be absent from any recitation of his class. 

3. Every instructer shall, with the approbation of the Presi* 



dent, appoint the time and place for the recitation of the class 
which he instructs. 

4. When a student is absent from recitation, without the per- 
mission of his instructer, he shall be called to an account for it; 
and if he have not a sufficient excuse to justify the absence, he 
shall be reprimanded by his instructer according to the nature 
of the offence; and if a student be frequently absent, he shall 
be reported to the faculty, and be subjected to such punishment 
as they may judge necessary. 

5. The hours of study shall be from sunrise till breakfast* 
from nine o'clock till twelve in the forenoon; from two till five 
in the afternoon; and, in the winter session, from eight till bed- 
time in the evening. During which hours every student shall 
keep his room, unless called from it to recite, or by some urgent 
necessity, of which he shall always be ready to give an account 
to any officer of the College who may observe his absence.— 
It is specially enjoined u})on all the students to remain in their 
rooms after the ringing of the evening bell, unless obliged to 
leave them by some cause that will obviously justify their ab- 
sence to the members of the Faculty. 

6. At the close of each session of the College, every class 
shall be strictly examined on all the studies of that session. — 
The examinations shall be public, so far as to admit not only 
the trustees, but all gentlemen of liberal education who may 
choose to be present, and such other persons as the Faculty or 
Trustees may invite. 

7. Those students who shall appear to the Faculty, on ex- 
amination, to be deficient in their studies, shall be dealt with 
according to the nature and extent of the deficiency. If the 
deficiency be great, the party in whom it appears shall be put 
into a lower class. If it be such as can be remedied by dili- 
gence, the Faculty may allow the ensuing vacation to make it 
up, and examine the party at the beginning of the succeeding 
session. If proofs of culpable negligence appear in any, though 
it have not been productive of gross deficiency, the Faculty 
may mention before the class the names of such persons, and 
administer a reproof to them, and an exhortation to greater 
diligence in future. Those, on the contrary, who shall appear 



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to excel, may be mentioned with approbation. And, in award- 
ing all literary honors and distinctions, a regard shall be had to 
the moral conduct and orderly behavior of the candidates for 
such distinctions. 

8. Students, who, by extraordinary talents or industry, are 
able to overtake a higher class, shall be admitted to it when the 
Faculty are satisfied that they are duly qualified. 

9. Students desirous to learn the French, Italian, Spanish, or 
German languages, may attend the Professor or Professors of 
said languages for the purpose, provided they have the consent 
of their parents or guardia^ns and the permission of the Faculty. 

10. No student, during the regular sessions of the College, 
shall attend any school or teacher to learn music, fencing or 
other accomplishments, or any art, science or language not 
taught in the College, except by permission of the Faculty, in 
consequence of a written request from his parent or guardian. 

11. The studies prescribed to undergraduates, are the follow- 
ing, viz: 

Algebra, Elements of Geometry, Plane and Spherical Trigo- 
nometry, Descriptive Geometry, Conic Sections, Analytical 
Geometry, Differential and Integral Calculus, Mensuration, 
Surveying, Navigation, Mechanics, Astronomy, Chemistry, 
Mineralogy, Geology, Experimental Philosophy, Natural Histo- 
ry, Roman and Grecian ilntiquities. Rhetoric and Belles 
Lettres, History and Chronology, the Greek and Latin Classics, 
Moral Philosophy, Logic, Political Economy, Philosophy of 
Mind, the Principles of International and Constitutional Law, 
Composition, Oratory, Criticism, Natural Theology, Evidences 
of the Chiistian Religion, and the Holy Scriptures. The most 
approved text-books shall always be used: and every subject 
shall be illustrated by lectures, as far as may be practicable or 
beneficial. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

Of Public Speaking, 
1. For the improvement of the Students in public speaking, 
two or more orations, as the Faculty may direct, shall be pro- 
nounced every evening, (Sundays and holidays excepted,) 



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immediately after prayers, on the stage in the College Chapel. 
These shall be assigned to the students in rotation, so that all 
may have the benefit of this exercise; nor shall any student be 
exempted from it, except on account of natural impediments or 
other disqualifications, of which the President or Faculty may 
judge. This statute may be altered or modified at the discre- 
tion of the Faculty. 

2. The members of the senior class may, in addition to the 
above exercises, or in place of them, be required to pronounce, 
at stated times, orations or declamations of their ovi^n compo- 
sition, as the President shall direct. 

3. Occasional exercises in public speaking may be assigned 
at the discretion of the President. 

4. Nothing indecent, profane or immoral shall at any time be 
delivered on the public stage, under penalty of such censure as 
the Faculty or Trustees shall judge proper. And it shall be the 
duty of every student who is appointed to speak in public, and 
previously to his commencement performances especially, to 
show to the President or some officer designated by him, the 
whole of w^hat he proposes to speak; and he shall not fail to 
observe such corrections as may be made in his exercise: and 
if any student shall pronounce any thing in public of a censu- 
rable nature, in contradiction to the directions or corrections 
of the officer to whom he has shown his piece, the President 
is authorized to stop him on the public stage, and he shall be 
otherwise punished as the Trustees or Faculty may determine. 



CHAPTER IX. 

Of the Steward^ and of order in the Dining Hall, 

1. All the students are required to diet with the Steward of 
the College, except those who live at home, or who board with 
their relatives, or with the members of the Faculty, or with 
such respectable private families as may be designated by their 
parents or guardians, subject to the approbation of the Trus- 
tees or Faculty and to such rules as they may prescribe. 

2. At the usual signal or summons for breakfast, dinner and 
supper, the students shall go peaceably to the door of the 



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Dining Hall, where they shall wait five minutes, if necessary, 
for a professor or tutor, 

3. After entering the Hall, they shall stand, in their respec- 
tive places, at the tables, in perfect silence, until a blessing shall 
be asked by the presiding officer. 

4. They shall sit at the tables according to the order Avhich 
the Faculty or Tutors shall appoint, and shall carefully observe 
all the regulations which may be made for their decent and 
proper behavior. 

5. They shall, at all times, pay respect to the Steward of the 
College, and they shall not, on any occasion, infringe the 
regulations, which, with the approbation of the Faculty, he 
may make for the good order of the servants, or of the Dining 
Hall and kitchen. 

6. Any officer of the College present shall have full power 
to reprimand any student wlio shall behave, in any respect, in- 
decently or improperly; or to order him instantly to leave the 
Dining Hall, and, if he refuse to obey such order, he shall be 
suspended by the Faculty. 

7. At the close of each meal, and upon the rising of the 
presiding officer from his chair, the students shall rise, and stand 
in their several places, until thanks shall have been returned, 
when they shall retire without noise or disorder, from the Hall. 
Nor shall a student, on any occasion, leave the table before it 
be regularly dismissed, except by permission from one of the 
officers present. 

8. The Steward shall not be obliged to provide any by-meal 
except in case of sickness, for any student who may not attend 
at the regular hours for breakfast, dinner and supper. 

9. All damages done to the refectory or furniture thereof, 
shall be paid for by the individuals who have done the same 
when they can be discovered; otherwise the amount shall be 
levied equally on those who belong to the same mess, or Avho 
sit at the same table, where the injury has been committed, or 
on all who diet in the refectory, at the discretion of the Faculty* 

10. The price of board per week, shall be determined by the 
Trustees, as often as shall be judged necessary. 

IL The students are required to pay the Steward for each 



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session in advance, agreeably to the rate fixed by the Trustees.. 
or to give him satisfactory security for the payment. Any 
credit allowed by him must, in all cases, be at his own risk. 

12. The Steward, when required, shall employ the necessary 
servants for the College, subject to the approbation of the Fac- 
ulty. He may also furnish the students with wood, candles and 
washing, in such way as the Trustees or Faculty shall direct. 

13. The Faculty are authorized to dispense with, alter, 
modify, or add to, any of the rules contained in this chapter, 
whenever they shall deem it expedient. 



CHAPTER X. 

Of Religious Exercises and the Sabbath. 

1. Every student shall attend morning and evening prayers 
in the College Chapel, at the hours a])pointed by the President, 
and shall behave with gravity and reverence dunng the whole 
service. 

2. All the students shall attend public worship on the Sab- 
bath or Lord's day, at such places as shall be designated by 
their parents or guardians, and shall be careful to maintain a 
reverential deportment. The due observance of the whole of 
the Sabbath is indispensable, and all practices inconsistent 
therewith, are expressly prohibited. 

3. As it is the right of every religious denomination to enjoy 
their peculiar sentiments and modes of worship, it is ordered, 
that the officers of College, in their instruction of the students, 
avoid, as much as possible, those controverted points which have 
so long divided the christian world: but, as the principles of ir- 
religion are destructive of society, and pernicious to all regular 
and salutary discipline in literary institutions, it is also ordered, 
that if any student shall avow or propaojate principles subver- 
sive of religion or morals, he shall be liable to admonition, 
suspension or expulsion. 

4. No student, who resides in the College, shall go out of the 
College yard on Sunday without permission. 

5. The students may be required to study on the Sabbath, the 
Holy Scriptures, the Evidences of the Christian Religion, or 

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TS'atural Theology; and to attend upon such other religious ex- 
ercises and lectures as the President shall direct. 



CHAPTER XL 

Of moral conduct and criminal offences. 
The students are to consider themselves, and each other, as 
young gentlemen, associated for the purposes of mutual improve- 
ment; and that it is their interest and their duty to demean 
themselves accordingly. To prevent all pleas of ignorance or 
misapprehension on this subject, the following statutes and spe- 
cifications are added. 

1. No exercises of the College, appointed by the Trustees or 
Faculty, shall ever be neglected by any student without a suffi- 
cient excuse, of which the competent authority is to be the sole 
judge. Pvionitors shall be appointed to note down the absentees 
from such exercises, as often as the Faculty or any particular 
instructer of a class may think proper. It shall be the duty of 
the Monitors to present a faithful report of all delinquents when- 
ever required. And, in case of failure, they shall be punished 
at the discretion of the Faculty. 

2. No student, who shall have been refused any indulgence 
by one officer, shall solicit the same indulgence from another 
officer; unless he prefer his request as an appeal from a tutor or 
professor to the Faculty, and state the whole case with its cir- 
cumstances. 

3. If any student be guilty of perjury, robbery, theft, forge- 
ry, or any other crime for which an infamous punishment may 
be infficted by the laws of the State, he shall be expelled. 

4. If any student shall possess or exhibit any indecent pic- 
ture, or purchase, introduce or read in College any obscene or 
impious books, be guilty of lying, profaneness, intemperance, 
playing at cards or other unlawful games, (or at any game for a 
w^ager,) or of other gross immoralities or impieties, he shall be 
punished according to the heinousness of the offence, by admo- 
nition, suspension or expulsion. 

5. If any student shall quarrel with, insult or abuse a fellow- 
student, or any person whatever, he shall make (if so directed) 
suitable acknowledgments to the offended or injured party, be 



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admonished by the Faculty, and give satisfactory assurances of 
his future peaceable and orderly behavior; or be otherwise pun- 
ished at the discretion of the Faculty. 

6. If any student shall fight a duel, or send or accept a chal- 
lenge to fight a duel, or carry such challenge, or be a second in 
a duel or in any wise aid or abet it, or abu^e or ridicule a fellow- 
student for refusing to fight or be concerned in a duel, he shall 
be immediately expelled. 

7. No student shall bring, or cause to be brought into Col- 
lege, or, on any occasion, keep in his room, any spirituous or 
fermented liquors; nor any fire-arms or ammunition of any kind; 
nor a sword, dirk, sword-cane or any deadly weapon whatever, 
upon penalty of such censure or punishment as the Faculty 
may judge the offence to deserve. 

8. No student shall go to a tavern, or other house where in- 
ebriating liquors arc sold, without permission from a member of 
the Faculty; and the purpose for which a student shall desire to 
go to any such place, shall be by him specified to the officer 
from whom he shall ask permission; and the permission obtain- 
ed shall be considered as granted for that purpose only: nor 
shall the time of continuance at such places be greater than that 
for which permission shall have been given. Every viola- 
tion of this law shall be punished at the discretion of the 
Faculty. 

9. No student shall, on any occasion, keep company with 
persons of notoriously bad character, under penalty of admo- 
nition, suspension or expulsion. 

10. The students are required to treat all persons, Avith whom 
they have intercourse, with decency and propriety; but espe- 
cially to exhibit the most respectful deportment to the officers 
of the College. And if a student shall disobey any of the law- 
ful commands of his teachers, or shall, either in speech or 
action, manifest disrespect towards any of them, or shall refuse 
to appear personally before them, or any one of them, when 
required to do so, he shall be admonished, suspended or expell- 
ed, according to the nature of the offence. 

11. Any student, when required to do so, shall open the door 
of his room to any officer of the College; and if he refuse, the 



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officer may break it open, and the expense of repairing it shall 
be defrayed by the student, who shall also be punished for dis- 
obedience, 

12. Any students who may be permitted to remain in the 
College, or in the town, during the vacations, shall be subject to 
all the laws respecting decent and orderly conduct, and shall be 
under the superintendence and control of the Faculty. And 
all the students, wherever they spend their vacations, are re- 
quired to behave with modesty and decorum: And if it be 
ascertained that they have been guilty, while absent, of any 
immoral or flagitious conduct, they shall be liable to such cen- 
sure or penally as the Faculty may judge to be merited. 

13. No shouting, loud talking, whistling, jumping, dancing, 
or any other boisterous noise, shall be permitted in the entries 
or rooms of the College, at any time, upon such penalty as the 
nature of the offence may, in the judgment of the Faculty, de- 
serve. During the hours of study especially, perfect silence 
must be maintained throughout the house. 

14. All writing, cutting or marking upon the walls, doors or 
furniture of the College, is strictly prohibited. And any stu- 
dent convicted thereof, shall, besides paying double the amount 
of damage done to the property, be punished at the discretion 
of the Faculty. 

15. Every student shall preserve order and decorum in his 
own room, and shall be responsible for all disorder therein, un- 
less he give information, when in his power, of the person or 
persons from whom it proceeded. 

16. If any clubs or combinations of the students shall, at 
any time, take place, either for resisting the authority of the 
College, interfering in its government, or for concealing or exe- 
cuting any mischievous design, every student concerned in such 
combination, shall be considered as guilty of the offence which 
was intended. And the Faculty are empowered and directed 
to break up all such combinations as soon as discovered, and to 
inflict a severer punishment on each individual than if the of- 
fence intended had been committed in his individual capacity, 
whatever be the number concerned, or whatever be the con- 
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17. If any student shall grossly neglect his studies, or if his 
general conduct shall be such that it does not appear to com- 
port with the interests of the institution, or with his own 
interest, to continue him in it, the President is authorized to in- 
form his parent or guardian that the further continuance of such 
student will be inexpedient, and to dismiss him, or allow him 
to go home, without public censure. And if he refuse to go, 
he shall be suspended or expelled. 

18. No student, during the regular sessions of the College, 
shall attend any ball, theatre, horse-race, or any unlawful or ex- 
pensive amusement whatever. Cock-fighting is especially for- 
bidden; and any student guilty of it shall be suspended or 
expelled. 

19. No student suspended or expelled from the College shall 
enter the edifice, or come on the College grounds, without per- 
mission from the President: nor shall the other students of the 
College visit or keep company with a suspended or expelled 
student, without the President's permission. 

20. No student, who lives in the College, shall, without per- 
mission, go to a greater distance than two miles from the 
College, at any time during the continuance of the session. 

21. No student shall keep, for his use or pleasure, any horse, 
carriage, dog, or servant: except when his parent or guardian 
shall, with the approbation of the Faculty, allow hhn a horse 
for the purpose of healthful exercise. Nor shall he indulge in 
any gratification or practice involving needless or extraordinary 
expense. 

22. Every student shall preserve not only his own room, but 
every part of the College premises, as- neat and cleanly as pos- 
sible: nor shall he throw out of his window or against the sides 
of the College, any filth of any description, under penalty of 
such censure or punishment as the offence may deserve. 

23. The students shall not be allowed to play on any musical 
instrument during the regular hours of study, nor after the ring- 
ing of the evening bell, or on the Sabbath. 

24. Every suspended student shall immediately return home, 
or reside at such place, during the period of his suspension, as 
the Faculty may direct. And upon application for re-admis- 

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sion, he shall produce satisfactory testimonials of his good be- 
havior while absent. 

25. Whereas, the laws of the College are few and general, 
and cases nnay occur which are not expressly provided for by 
law; in all such cases, the Faculty shall proceed according to 
their best discretion, and may punish a student by inflicting 
any College censure, according to the nature and circumstan- 
ces of his crime. They may also, when they think proper, ac- 
cept an ingenuous public confession, in heu of a penalty, except 
where the law requires expulsion. 



CHAPTER XIL 

Of the Inspector, and of Damages done to the College, 

1. A professor, tutor, or other suitable person, shall be ap- 
pointed to inspect the College, and see that the rooms and en- 
tries are kept in good repair. 

2. The inspector shall visit all the apartments of the College 
once a month or oftener, to see if any waste has been made, and 
shall cause it immediately to be repaired. If the waste or dam- 
age be committed in any private apartment, and by the fault of 
him or them who occupy it, and in all cases where the damage 
could not be done by a person fi'om without the apartment, the 
Inspector shall charge double for the repairs which he shall cause 
to be made; and, in like manner, for damages done in the public 
rooms, entries, or uninhabited apartments, or to any portion of 
the College property, when the offending party or parties can 
be discovered; but when such discovery cannot be made, the 
Inspector shall levy the expense of repairs equally on all the 
students, and it shall be paid before the end of the session in 
which it has been levied. If any fail to make payment within 
the time specified, the sum due from each individual shall be 
added to the bill to be paid to the Treasurer at the beginning 
of the next session. 

3. Damage done by accident, and where no blame can attach 
to the party, shall be immediately made good by the person or 
persons who have occasioned it, or a sufficient sum to effect the 
repairs shall be paid to the Inspector. 

4. The Inspector shall keep a detailed and correct account of 



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the repairs which have been made, and of the expenses incurred 
in consequence thereof, and of the money received for damages 
from the students and treasurer; which account he shall lay be- 
fore the trustees or their committee, for audit and settlement, 
w^henever required. 

5. Every student shall pay to the treasurer one dollar, at the 
commencement of each session, to constitute a fund in advance, 
for such general repairs of the College as are not chargeable to 
any individual. 

6. The regulations of this chapter may be modified or dis- 
pensed with at the discretion of the Faculty. 



CHAPTER XIII. 
Of the Librarian and Library. 

1. The Trustees or Faculty shall appoint a Librarian, who 
shall execute the duties of his office agreeably to the du'ection 
of the Faculty, in all matters which are not provided for by the 
rules estabhshed by the Trustees. 

2. Every student may be entitled to the use of the Library, 
agreeably to the rules and provisions contained in this chapter, 
on payment of two dollars per session to the Treasurer for the 
privilege. 

3. The Librarian shall cause an accurate catalogue of all the 
books and other articles belonging to the Library to be made, (if 
such catalogue be not already made,) agreeably to a plan to 
be prescribed by the President. All future additions to the Li- 
brary shall be immediately entered in the catalogue in the 
proper places and in similar manner. 

4. He shall keep a book (to be furnished by the Trustees) for 
the purpose of recording all donations made to the Library, 
with the names and places of residence of the donors, and the 
value of their respective donations. 

5. Any person who shall present to the Library one hundred 
dollars or more in cash; or books, maps, charts or other appro- 
priate articles, to the value of one hundred dollars or more, 
shall, during life, have the privilege of borrowing books from 
the Library, subject to the same rules as other persons who are 
entitled to the use of it. 



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6. The Librarian shall attend at the Library once a week or 
oftener, during every session, on such day and at such hour as 
he shall appoint, to give out books to all who have a right to 
apply. He shall enter in a book, kept for the purpose, the 
names of all who borrow books, with the title, size and condi- 
tion of the volumes borrowed; by which entry he shall com- 
pare them when returned. 

7. No student or other person, except members of the Fac- 
ulty shall be allowed to take out of the Library, at one time, 
m.ore than one folio or quarto, or two octavo or smaller volumes, 
which shall be returned before he shall have liberty to borrow 
any other books. 

8. The Librarian shall permit no student to keep a book 
longer than as follows, viz: a folio, four weeks; a quarto, three 
weeks; an octavo, two weeks; and every other book, one week. 

9. No book received from the Library shall be lent: and he 
who receives it shall be answerable for every injury done to it 
while in his possession: if lost, defaced, or torn, he shall pay a 
sum proportionable to the damage incurred, or replace it at the 
choice of the Faculty. If the volume lost or materially injured, 
belong to a valuable set, he shall pay for the whole set, and take 
the broken set as his own property. 

10. Any student who shall keep a book smaller than an oc- 
tavo longer than one week, shall be fined twelve and a half 
cents, for each additional week or fraction of a week: the fine 
for keeping an octavo beyond the limited time of two weeks, 
shall be twenty-five cents for each additional week or fraction 
of a week: for keeping a quarto longer than three weeks the 
fine shall be thirty-seven and a half cents for each additional 
week or fraction of a week; and for keeping a foho longer than 
four weeks, the fine shall be fifty cents for each additional week 
or fraction of a week. No person on whom a fine shall have 
been imposed, shall be allowed to take a book from the Library, 
till the fine be paid. 

IL The members of tlie Faculty may retain in their keeping, 
books of science belonging to the branches which they teach, 
as long as to the President and Librarian it shall appear that 
the general interests of the institution will permit; provided 



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that this time does not extend beyond that session of the Col- 
lege during which the books shall be borrowed from the 
Library. 

12. No book shall be permitted to be carried more than two 
miles from the College, on any pretext, or by any person what- 
ever, except by special authority from the Trustees. 

13. No person, not having a right to the use of the Library, 
shall be permitted to borrow a book therefrom, without deposit- 
ing with the Librarian the value of the whole set, which shall 
be forfeited, if the book be not duly returned. 

14. The Trustees, and other persons authorized by them, may 
borrow books from the Library, subject to the limitations speci- 
fied in the seventh and twelfth sections of this chapter. Pro- 
vided always, that they keep no volume longer than eight 
weeks, on penalty of such fines as are mentioned in the tenth 
section. 

15. The citizens of Nashville and its vicinity may borrow 
books from the Library, on paying individually to the Treasurer 
three dollars per session, in advance, for the privilege, subject 
to the same rules as the students. 

16. If a Trustee or member of the Faculty desire to consult 
a book in the Library without taking it from the room, it shall 
be the duty of the Librarian to attend him for that purpose. 

17. No books shall be taken from the Library by the students 
during the regular vacations of the College. 

18. The President shall specify such books, maps, &c., as are> 
on no account, to be taken out of the Library; and also such 
works as it may be improper for the students to read. 

19. The Librarian shall keep an exact account of the money 
received by him for fines, or from any quarter for the benefit of 
the Library, and submit it to the examination of the Trustees 
whenever required. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

Of the Treasurer, 
1. The Treasurer shall, on entering upon his office, give such 
bond and security for the faithful discharge of his duties as shall 
be satisfactory to the board of Trustees. 



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2. He shall keep his accounts in such manner as the board 
may prescribe; and always in such manner as to exhibit clear- 
ly and distinctly all the different sources of revenue with the 
sums received from each; and also the particular objects of ex- 
penditure, with the sums expended, on each. 

3. He shall, on no occasion, pay out any money from the 
University Treasury, except upon the authority of a warrant 
or order signed by the President, or by some person duly au- 
thorized by the Trustees. 

4. He shall make up the session bills of the students agree- 
ably to a written statement to be furnished him by the President 
or Clerk of the Faculty, as often as may be necessary. 

5. He shall refund no money to a student on leaving College 
before the close of a session, except upon the order of the 
President. 

6. His accounts shall be fully examined and settled at the 
close of each session, by a committee appointed by the Trus- 
tees; and their report shall, if accepted, be recorded in the 
minutes of the board. 

7. The clerk of the Faculty, or some other person appointed 
by the Trustees, shall, at the end of each session, furnish to the 
board an accurate list of all the students who may have been 
connected with the College during that session, with the dates 
of their admission and departure, and a specification of the 
sums which they ought respectively to have paid into the Trea- 
sury or to have drawn from it; with which list the committee 
above named shall compare the entries in the Treasurer's books: 
and the Treasurer shall be responsible for any deficiency which 
shall appear to have resulted from his fault or negligence. 



CHAPTER XV. 

Of Resident Graduates. 

1. Graduates intending to reside for improvement at this Col- 
lege, shall signify to the President distinctly that such is their 
intention; and also that they will comply with all the provisions 
of the statutes contained in this chapter, and with all the laws 
of the institution respecting moral and orderly behaviour. 

2. Resident graduates shall treat all the officers and institu- 



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tions of the College with respect; and encourage diligence, 
order and obedience among the undergraduates. 

3. They shall have the free and full use of the College Li- 
brary, by paying to the Treasurer two dollars per session for 
the same; subject however to the laws relative to the Library, 
as contained in chapter XIIL 

4. They may attend the recitations of any class or classes in 
the College, or the lectures of any officer, by paying to the 
Treasurer one half of the customary tuition fee; and provided 
always, that they have the permission of the Faculty. 

5. They may diet in the College Refectory, at the same price 
and subject to the same rules, as the undergraduates. 

6. They may receive private instruction from any officer of 
the College who may be willing to give it, for which they shall 
make such compensation as shall be agreed on between them 
and such officer. 

7. They shall not visit the rooms of the undergraduates in 
study hours, nor after the ringing of the evening bell, without 
permission from some member of the Faculty. 

8. If any resident graduate shall be judged by the Faculty 
to act in a manner injurious to the College, he shall be so in- 
formed; and shall thenceforward cease to possess the privileges 
assured to him by these laws. 



CHAPTER XVL 

Of Dismissions and Absences from College, 

1. Any student desirous to leave College before the comple- 
tion of his course, shall, if a minor, produce from his parent or 
guardian a written certificate or statement that such is his wish; 
and the President is authorized to grant him such certificate of 
dismission as he may deserve. 

2. In every certificate of dismission from College, the reasons 
of dismission shall be specified, and the student's standing as a 
scholar particularly mentioned. 

3. A student dismissed, suspended, or expelled from College, 
shall have refunded to him whatever he may have advanced to 
the Treasurer or Steward for board, wood and washing, beyond 
the date of his dismission, suspension or expulsion. 



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4. Should a student leave the College altogether, without ob- 
taining a regular dismission, or without the President's permis- 
sion, he shall be regarded and treated as a suspended student. 

5. Every matriculated student will be required to pay the 
whole charge for tuition of each session, unless he shall be ab- 
sent longer than the half of a session on account of sickness, or 
some other urgent necessity which may be satisfactory to the 
Faculty, in which case he shall pay the half of said charge. 

6. Should a student die, or be dismissed on account of sick- 
ness or other cause satisfactory to the Faculty, before the 
middle of a session, the tuition fee advanced for the last half 
of the session by such student shall be refunded to his parent or 
guardian. 



CHAPTER XVII. 

Of Commencements and Academical Degrees. 

1. There shall be an annual Commencement on the first 
Wednesday of October. 

2. This University is authorized to grant all the academical 
degrees Avhich are, or may be granted by any College or Uni- 
versity in Europe or America. 

3. The degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts shall be con- 
ferred by the President with the consent of the Faculty: and 
all other degrees shall be conferred by the President with the 
concurrence and approbation of the Trustees. 

4. No student shall be admitted to the first degree in the arts 
who has not attended to the regular course of study prescribed 
to the College, in a manner satisfactory to the Faculty; or who 
has not paid all his College dues and the usual fees; or who shall 
refuse to perform the commencement exercises assigned him by 
the Faculty. 

5. Bachelors of three years standing, and of good moral 
character, may be admitted to the second degree, at the discre- 
tion of the Faculty. 

6. Candidates for the Master's degree may perform such 
exercises at the pubhc Commencements as the President shall 
approve. 

7. Persons who have received a degree from any other Col- 



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lege or University may, with the approbation of the Faculty ot 
Trustees, be admitted ad eundem, upon payment of the same 
fees which they would have paid had they originally received the 
same degree at this institution. 

8. All diplomas shall be prepared agreeably to a form pre- 
scribed by the President, and at the expense of the persons 
who apply for them. 

9. It shall be the duty of the students to attend Commence* 
ment, and all its arrangements, in such manner as the President 
shall direct. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 
Of Vacations, 

1. There shall be two vacations in every year, consisting of 
five and a half weeks each. The first shall begin on the day 
after Commencement: and the second, oh the first Wednesday 
in April. 

2. Every student, before he leaves College at the close of a 
session, is required to deliver the key of his room to the Inspec- 
tor, with a label attached to it, inscribed with his name and the 
number of his room. Whoever neglects to comply with this 
law shall be responsible for all the loss or damage which may 
result from such neglect. 

3. All furniture atid other property left in the rooms, during 
the vacations, must be at the risk of the owners. 

4. It shall be the duty of the Inspector, or, in his absence, 
df the Steward, to take particular care of the College edifices in 
times of vacation; to cause the rooms and entries to be thorough- 
ly cleansed and whitewashed, the chimneys to be swept of 
burnt, and all necessary repairs to be made. 

5. It is required of all the students to return to the College 
immediately after the close of each vacation. And, the more 
effectually to secure a punctual attendance at the opening of the 
College, it is ordered, that the Faculty and students assemble in 
the Chapel, at twelve o'clock at noon, on the first day of each 
session, when the roll of the College shall be called, and those 
who shall then be ascertained to be absent, shall forfeit theif 



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right to the rooms which they formerly occupied. And the 
rooms thus forfeited, with all others that may be AMcant, shall 
be allotted to the students present, in such way as the Faculty 
may direct. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

Miscellaneous Notices and Regulations. 

1. The stated expenses of a student at this University, for 
each session or half year, payable in advance, are, for tuition, 
room rent and servants' wages, thirty-Jive dollars. 

Every new student is required to pay a matriculation fee of 
five dollars, and also twenty-five cents for a copy of the print- 
ed laws of the University. 

The charges for board, wood and washing will vary accord- 
ing to the state of the market. They will always be made as 
moderate as possible. The Steward will never charge for more 
than twenty weeks as constituting a session; and, in no case, 
for a longer period than the student actually boards with him. 

2. Poor pious young men of good natural talents, who intend 
to become Ministers of the Gospel, may, without distinction of 
sect or name, be received as students of this University at one 
half of the ordinary charges. 

3. Students may be admitted at any time during the regular 
sessions; but it will be greatly to their advantage to enter at 
the commencement of a session. 

4. Young gentlemen who wish to pursue only a part of the 
prescribed course of studies, and without reference to gradua- 
tion, may be indulged so far as the convenience of the Faculty 
and the general interests of the institution will permit: provided 
alv^rays, that, when minors, they have the consent of their pa- 
rents or guardians. 

5. Students, when they speak in pubHc, are required to ap- 
pear in black gowns, made after a fashion prescribed by the 
Faculty. 

6. Ail literary societies, or associations of students for any 
purpose, are subject to the control of the Faculty; and may be 



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dissolved at their pleasure, for reasons which shall be approved 
by the Trustees. 

7. The Chemical Laboratory, with its expensive fixtures and 
furniture, the Philosophical and Astronomical Apparatus, the 
Museum and Cabinets of Natural History and Mineralogy, are 
intrusted to the care of the Professors severally who make use 
of them in their course of instruction; subject to such rules as 
the Trustees or Faculty may prescribe. 

8. Parents and guardians will consult the best interests of 
their sons and wards, by withholding from them the means of 
extravagant and hurtful indulgences, and by refusing to pay 
any debts contracted without their approbation. 

9. As the students are exempt, by charter, from all military 
duties, so are they forbidden by t'le trustees to serve, either as 
officers or privates, in the militia or in any associations for 
military exercises. 



BOARD OF TRUSTEES- 



PHILIP LINDSLEY, President of the University, 
and tx officio President of the Board, Elected 
in 1824. 

Robert C. Foster, Esq. 
Hon. Felix Grundy, Member of U. S. Senate. 

Felix Robertson, M. D. 

Elihu S. Hall, Esq, 
Hon, Ephraiim H. Foster, 
Hon. John Bell, M. C. 

James Overton, M. D. 

Francis B. Fogg, Esq. 

Leonard P. Cheatham, Esq. 

Andrew Jackson, LL. D. Ex-President of U. S. A. 

Boyd M'Nairy, M. D. 

Thomas Washington, Esq. 
Hon. George W, Campbell, 

Henry M. Rutledge, Esq. 

David Craighead, Esq. 

John L. Hadley, M, D. 

Joseph W» Horton, Esq, 

John M, Bass, Esq, 

Return J. Meigs, Esq. 

Robert H. M'Ewen, Esq, 

Edv^tin H» Ewing, Esq. 

John Trimble, Esq, 

The Governor of the State, for the time being, is ear- 
officio a member of the Board. 



FACULTY OF ARTS. 



PHILIP LINDSLEY, D. D. President. 
Gerard Troost, M. D. Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy 
and Geology. 

James Hamilton, A. M. Professor of Mathematics and Natu- 
ral Philosophy. 

Nathaniel Cross, A. M. Professor of Ancient Languages. 

Alexander S. Villeplait, A. M. Professor of Modern Lan- 
guages. 

Carlos G. Smith, A. B. Senior Tutor. 

— — ' Junior Tutor. 



NOTE. 



Cumberland College was incorporated by the Legislature 
of Tennessee, September 11, 1806. 

The first building was completed in 1808, at a cost of $12,- 
240. It was 70 feet long by 47 1-2 wide, and three stories 
high. It constitutes the west end of the present central or 
main College edifice. 

The College was opened for the reception of students in the 
autumn of 1809; and continued in operation seven years, or 
until October 1816. During this period nineteen young gen- 
tlemen were admitted, in course, to the first degree in the arts^ 
Number of students, unknown. Dr. Jam.es Priestly was Presi- 
dent, and the Rev. William Hume, Professor of Languages. 

By an act of the Legislature, passed October 18, 1824, the 
Governor of the State, for the time being, is appointed ex officio 
a member of the Board of Trustees. 

The College was re-organized, and again put in operation, 
in November 1824. 

The University of Nashville became the legal style and 
title of the College, by an act of the Legislature, November 
27, 1826. 

The number of graduated alumni, since its resuscitation in 
1824 to October 1839, is 201. The whole number of new st(i- 
dents matriculated, or admitted into the College classes, during^— 
the same period [i. e. from 1824 to 1839,] was 688. Total 
number of graduates 220. 

The University Library and the Libraries of the two lite- 
rary societies connected with the institution, contain about 
nine thousand volumes. 

The present buildings are, 

1. Cumberland Hall— -heing the old College enlarged. It is 
180 feet long — with an average width of 49 feet. It is three 



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stories high; contains 44 lodging rooms for students, a chapel 
47 feet by 38 1-2 in the clear and two stories high, and two 
rooms or halls in the third story over the chapel, appropri- 
ated to the literary societies. 

2. The Laboratory — 90 feet by 37 1-2 — one story — wdth 
convenient rooms and fixtures for chemical lectures and ex- 
periments. 

3. Steward? s House and Refectory — 56 feet by 42. 

4. East Wing. A new edifice — 76 feet by 45 1-2 — three 
stories high — built in 1837-8, by private subscriptions. 

The above are all of brick, wdth stone foundations or base- 
ments. They have cost, together with the walls of stone and 
brick around the College campus, about seventy thousand dol- 
lars. 

October, 1839. 



INDEX. 



PAGll. 

1. Of the Faculty of the University, - ... 3 

2. Of the President, --..... 4 

3. Of the Professors, ---.... 4 

4. Of the Tutors, [5 

5. Of Admission into the University, - ^ . - 6 

6. Of Punishments, - - - ^ . . 7 

7. Of Study, ] ". 8 

8. Of Public Speaking, - - - -^ - ^ 10 

9. Of the Steward, and of order in the Dining Hall, 11 

10. Of Religious Exercises and the Sabbath, - -13 

11. Of Moral conduct and criminal offences, - . 14 

12. Of the Inspector, and of damages done to the College^ 18 

13. Of the Librarian and Library, - - ^ ^^ 19 

14. Of the Treasurer, ------ 21 

15* Of Resident Graduates, 22 

16. Of Dismissions and Absences from College^ - - 21 

17. Of Commencements and Academical Degrees, - 24 

18. Of Vacations, 25 

19. Miscellaneous Notices and Regulations, - - 26 

20. List of Trustees, ----.. 28 
2L Do. Faculty, - . . , . ^ 29 
22. Historical Note, ---'»-. 30 



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